browserTunes 0.2.2 Beta

Browser remote control for iTunes
browserTunes allows you to remotely control iTunes from any web browser. Just point the browser to http://yourmac:8080 (where "yourmac" is the name or IP address of your Mac) and you can play songs, pause, get information about the song playing, view and play playlists.

browserTunes works fine for PDA browsers and perhaps also with phone-based browsers. So if you have an Airport Express in your living room and your computer with iTunes in the basement, you can control the music from a handheld browser.

Or, if you just have two computers and only one has your iTunes music collection, you can still control it from anywhere.

The browserTunes app comes with its own embedded mini web server, so you do not need to set up a server on your Mac. The server runs on port 8080 (configurable).

BrowserTunes Supported Browsers

Mac OS X:
· Firefox 0.9
· IE 5.2
· Netscape 7.1
· Mozilla 1.7
· Safari 1.2.3 
· Camino 0.8.1

Windows PC:
· Firefox 0.9
· IE 6.0
· Netscape 7.1


Main features of browserTunes:

List all iTunes playlists

Play specific playlist

Play/Pause function

Next/Previous song function

Search/Browse

Get information about current song:

Artist

Title

Album

Date

Time

Genre

Support for Audio CDs

Volume Control

Search for track name, artist, or genre (in database mode)

Auto-detect listening IP address and self-polling

Configuration Options:

Configure IP address to listen on

Configure port to listen on

Auto-Start Server option

Auto-Start iTunes option

Plain or fancy web GUI option

Album Art display

Password security

Database options


What's New in This Release:

New Features:

Browse by artist option

Faster iTunes searching in non-SQL mode

Search by album

Support for repeat one/all/off

Support for shuffle on/off

Eliminate CSS in PDA mode for better compatiblity

Change URL delimiters from colon to question mark

Auto restart on server fail (polling)

Moved Preferences panel to center

Fixed the following issues:

PDA Mode starts with no controls visible

DB Load fails when some track info is missing

Reload PL causes database problems if run when no database